Kitchen Remodeling in Des Peres, Missouri

Des Peres homes and this kind of project

Our first visit for a kitchen remodel in Des Peres is spent on which walls bear load, where plumbing and ducts run and how much room the electrical panel has left, which tells us how original ranches and the large new homes replacing them were put together.

The housing stock here: a mix of mid-century ranches and large homes built since 2000.

Opening a walled-off ranch kitchen is usually simple structurally and transforms the house.

What we find inside Des Peres homes

In original houses, whole-floor renovation is common. In new ones, work is personalization: built-ins, millwork and upgraded baths.

Mid-century kitchens in Des Peres are compact and walled off. In a ranch the fix is often straightforward, since interior partitions carry little load, and opening the kitchen to the living area transforms the house. Electrical service usually needs upgrading to support modern appliances.

What is included

A full Des Peres kitchen remodel with us includes design drawings, engineering if walls move, permits, demolition, framing, plumbing, gas, electrical, drywall, flooring, cabinet and countertop installation, tile, trim, paint and appliance hookup. You get a written schedule before we start.

We take on kitchen remodel work in and around neighborhoods off Manchester, Ballas and Dougherty Ferry roads.

What we watch for

In Des Peres houses the wall between kitchen and dining room frequently carries second-floor joists or hides the main plumbing stack. We open a small inspection hole and check the basement framing below before we tell you what removing it will cost.

Working on lots where coverage limits are a real constraint, as we do in Des Peres, we plan access for carpenters, a plumber, an electrician, cabinet installers, a countertop fabricator and a tile setter before the first delivery arrives.

Permits and approvals in Des Peres

For a kitchen remodel at a Des Peres address, the paperwork goes to the City of Des Peres. Expect rough framing, plumbing, gas, electrical and final inspections.

Interior work like this normally does not involve lot-coverage and height limits, though dumpsters and working hours sometimes do, and we check.

Schedule and getting to you

Plan on six to ten weeks of site work for a kitchen remodel in Des Peres, once permits and materials are in hand.

Des Peres sits toward the edge of our range: I-64 to I-270 south, about forty minutes. We group trade visits and deliveries carefully for projects at that distance, and we take them on when the scope justifies a dedicated crew.

What moves the price in Des Peres

We price kitchen remodeling in Des Peres from a site visit, not a square-foot figure. These are the items that change the number.

• Cabinet construction and the number of drawer bases, pull-outs and tall units.
• Countertop square footage, material and the number of cutouts and seams.

More detail

Our step-by-step method for this work, and the factors that move its price, are laid out on the main kitchen remodeling page. More about the area is on our Des Peres page.